So you mean to tell me that i had two black iPhone 5 with multiple nicks and scratches right out of boxes in the apple store, I should just use them and deal with it? When I paid full price and has not even been in my pocket, because eventually it will get f-ed up?
Shouldnt the conversation focus on qc? Even if apple had checked ramandly every 10000 out of the 5 million they sold, they would have caught 166? 500*1/3? I will even give them a few, 100?
These are not functional problems like 4. These were appearance problems. If I can see with my naked eyes then there is a problem. I can accept the car 1000 times more argument. But when you have somehing that fails on first inspection at the rate of 30%. Then you should not accept it, just because it will get worse in the future anyway.
If a doctor knows the drug fails 30% o the time right of the bat, and expect me to pay full price AND not telling me about it? Fine, I cannot price on human life.
How about my gf's 1500 hand bag?
How about your 600 dollar watch?
Lastly my $8000 Kia?
Find someone pay full price for my out of box nicked iPhone please.
You actually compared a human life to a $200 phone? WOW...... Ok, let's play your game. There is this thing called malpractice. Your doctor just committed a crime that will end his career and put him in jail. You really think that is a fair comparison to a phone?
Where are you coming up with 30% failure rate? Is this a scientific study? Just because 3 out of 10 posts are from people that complain doesn't mean that 30% have failed QC. People are 10X more likely to share a negative experience than a positive one. 30% might be just a touch high (rolling eyes).
I haven't seen your phone and these "major" scratches you're referring to so I can't tell you what to do. My thought is that if the phone will scratch as much as chicken little says it will, I wouldn't be too worried about something "minor." If it's "major" then it's your call. Would I be happy if mine came scratched, no but I'd also look at the big picture. In the whole scheme of things, are tiny scratches, that will end up there anyway, going to cause me to return the phone? If your screen is scratched, the buttons don't push right, the vibration motor is off, something that effects the phones performance is not working right, then by all means, b!tch and moan all you want. You've got a legit case. We're talking about tiny minor imperfections / scratches that will end up there whether you like it or not in a matter of days / weeks / months.
My ex bought Coach purses all the time. Those aren't $1,500 but they aren't cheap. Not every one was perfect and she decided that it wasn't worth complaining about. You're buying what amounts to a disposable product. How long will the average buyer hold onto their iP5? 12-24 months and then it's on to the next one. I buy a Movado to last 10+ years. Same thing with your $8k car. You don't buy a new one every time a new model comes out.
Question for you... If you buy iPhones, $1,500 purses, $600 watches, why do you only have a $8,000 car? Seems like if you had the kind of dough to spend $1,500 on a purse you wouldn't be driving anything less than an Audi and those are 4-5X or more expensive than your Kia.
